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I'm trying to read a file which contain English & Arabic characters on each line and another file which contains English & Chinese characters on each line. However the characters of the Arabic and Chinese fail to show correctly - they just appear as question marks. Any idea how I can solve this problem?

After reading the line and getting the Arabic and Chinese word I use a function to translate them by simply searching for Given Arabic Text in an ArrayList (which contain all expected words) (using indexOf(); method). Then when the word's index is found it's used to call the English word which has the same index in another Arraylist. However this search always returns false because it fails when searching the question marks instead of the Arabic and Chinese characters. So my System.out.println print shows me nulls, one for each failure to translate.

The file I'm reading has been given to me after it has been modified by another program (which I know nothing about beside it's made in VB) the program made the Arabic letters that are not appearing correctly to appear. When I checked the encoding of the file on Notepad++ it showed that it's ANSI. however when I convert it to UTF8 (which replaced the Arabic letter with other English one) and then convert it back to ANSI the Arabic become question marks!

Convenience class for reading character files. The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are appropriate. To specify these values yourself, construct an InputStreamReader on a FileInputStream.

IT is most likely Reading the information in correctly, however your output stream is probably not UTF-8, and so any character that cannot be shown in your output character set is being replaced with the '?'.

You can read each letter with the help of its components (dots and diacritics). Diacritic signs are to be originally hidden. Most Arabic books and newspapers rarely use diacritics. Arabs depend on context and experience to know the hidden diacritics.

Therefore, each of Arabic letters has many sub-forms depending on its position (initial, medial, final, or isolated) in the word. The sub-forms of most letters are close to each other, e.g. letter equivalent to /s/:

This is the standalone form of a letter, and is used when a letter is not connected to any other Arabic letters. This form is used in case of presenting the Arabic alphabet or in the case of numbering elements like (A, B, etc.).

This form is used when a letter is connected from both sides. Please note that some Arabic letters comes in the middle of a word, but it is not connected from both sides. This is because of the 6 Arabic letters called "one side connectors".

As you likely already know, Arabic is read from right to left. However, unlike some Asian scripts, it's also read horizontally. That means that you read the entire first line of text, right to left, before you go to the next line underneath.

Reading Arabic texts is challenging, as there are some letters that look almost identical but read differently and even have different pronunciations, especially to Europeans or people from other languages families.

First angle is to learn how to read Arabic letters, but you will only master a few letters and end up having many questions. Therefore, you have to keep practicing. Second angle to tackle is to learn how to read sentences. This will help you understand the grammar. Grammar mainly breaks down the language into small parts and deals with how are parts are engaged in a sentence.

Only one of the few fields where the Arabic pronunciation is affected by accent is the stress in some few words. E.g. A word like Alǰamiʿah (the university) is pronounced in Gulf and Levantine Arabic with a clear stress on the second syllable, while in Egypt and North Africa the stress is on the penultimate syllable. Both pronunciations are correct in MSA.

Beginners can start with words and phrases. Reading Arabic for beginners is much easier than reading novels and literature, as it requires thinking about complex meanings. Reading is not just pronouncing meaningless words.

Aim to avoid common mistakes like misreading certain Arabic letters. Check you pronunciation with the help of a native Arabic speaker. Try to record or write his corrections. Remember your mistakes and try to avoid them. Avoiding these mistakes will help you progress faster.

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Reading Arabic is difficult but not impossible, so be patient and continue. Remember the names of the Arabic letters, as you may need them in the following pages. Keep reading the next pages of the expertly curated curriculum. If you find any difficulties or need any assistance, please write it in a comment below.

To compose in a right-to-left language you will want to enable the Windows keyboard language for the right-to-left language that you want to use. See add an input language in Windows and enable the keyboard layout for the right-to-left language.

Depending on how you prefer to customize your computer, you can use one language for your display (menus, dialog boxes, and wizards), and type in a different language as needed. If you want to both type in a right-to-left language and see the menus and online Help in that language, you can set the Microsoft 365 display to that language preference. For more information, see Change the language of Microsoft Office.

Several right-to-left features in Microsoft 365 programs use the display language to determine the screen layout direction and the alignment of text within dialog boxes. When you specify a right-to-left user display language in the Set the Office Language Preferences dialog box, the layout of menus, dialog boxes, and wizards are right to left, but the Microsoft Windows settings remain left to right.

The menus are displayed right to left. If the Windows display language is still set to English, the title bar remains in English and the Close, Minimize, and Maximize buttons remain in the upper-right corner as they do in a left-to-right interface. If the Windows display language is set up for a right-to-left language, the language in the title bar would also be translated, and the Close, Minimize, and Maximize buttons would be in the upper-left corner.

If you work primarily in a left-to-right language but sometimes need to insert text in a right-to-left language, you can select your left-to-right language (such as English) for your display language and type in the right-to-left language in most of the Microsoft 365 programs when you want to. To do this, Set right-to-left text, bullets, and numbering for the editing area and enable the keyboard layout.

You can change the text direction from within a Microsoft 365 program by choosing the Right-to-left paragraph button in the Paragraph group on the Home tab (this only appears if you have a right-to-left language enabled). Even after changing your display to appear in a right-to-left language, you must have the appropriate keyboard language enabled to enter text in that language.

To type using a particular language's native keyboard, you must add the appropriate keyboard layout. For instruction on how to add an additional keyboard language see Change the language of Microsoft Office.

After adding a keyboard layout for another language, a language indicator (called the "Language bar") appears on the taskbar, next to the clock, and displays the current keyboard language. For example, in Windows 10, the language indicator for Hebrew is .

When both left-to-right and right-to-left languages are enabled, the Left-to-right and Right-to-left paragraph buttons are enabled on the ribbon in most of the Microsoft 365 programs. When you click these buttons, you can change the direction of text when entering and justifying text.

Many right-to-left or combined right-to-left and left-to-right programs apply context rules that control text direction and the reading order of text. Boxes, lists, and other elements control the context rules for the text that they contain.

If only neutral characters are typed, both the reading order and the direction follow the paragraph direction (which can be either left-to-right or right-to-left) until the first strong character is typed.

In Word and other word-processing programs, you can select, find, and replace individual diacritics and individual Arabic characters regardless of whether they are ligated. Each ligature and diacritic is managed as a discrete unit of a right-to-left language word.

Indic languages, such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu, might not be compatible with every search option in Microsoft Office. For example, the Match case and Find whole words only options do not work for scripts in these languages. However, these options can still be used to find matching Latin characters in the same document.

Find-and-replace features search text in the order in which the text is entered in the Search box, instead of the order in which it is displayed. Therefore, you can search for strings of right-to-left text, regardless of the direction of the paragraph. You can also search for matches of characters with or without kashidas (Arabic only), Alef Hamzas (Arabic only), or diacritics, such as the Hebrew niqqud. For a list of ASCII and Unicode character codes, see Insert ASCII or Unicode Latin-based symbols and characters.

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